El Otro Lado (the other side)

August 2, 2015

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Reyna Grande has lived Mexican President Porfirio Díaz’s famous declaration: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States!" She traces her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero to "El Otro Lado" (the other side) in a powerful, harrowing new memoir "The Distance Between Us."

Reyna Grande has lived Mexican President Porfirio Díaz’s famous declaration: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States!" She traces her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero to "El Otro Lado" (the other side) in a powerful, harrowing new memoir "The Distance Between Us."